Including at 6.15 Pause for Thought with Chris Eyden.
And at 9.15 Pause for Thought with Indarjit Singh.
With The Organist Entertains.
To his legions of followers, comedian Lenny Bruce was a genius and a free-speech hero. But his detractors labelled him sick and dirty. Forty years on from his premature death, Simon Amstell finds out why Lenny's fight for freedom of speech opened the clubhouse doors but cost him his life. The programme includes contributions from
Eddie Izzard , John Fortune ,
Dick Gregory and Stewart Lee , and features an exclusive interview with Lenny's daughter, Kitty Bruce. Producer Hilary Robinson
3/4. Petula Clark profiles the French chanteuse Edith Piaf
(born Edith Giovanna Gassion ), who died of cancer in 1963, aged 47, following a career marked by dramatic and soaring performances. This edition recalls the recording in 1946 of one of her key works - La Vie en Rose - and the first of her nine tours to
America, where she fell in love with boxer Marcel Cerdan , whose 1949 death in a plane crash proved devastating for the singer.
Steve Harley with hits and LP cuts.
Featuring a live session from Welsh incendiary rock quintet Crosbi.
Including at 1.30am Pause for Thought with Ali Hutchison.
3.30 as 1.30